25 Aug 2010
We use them every day. They influence our lives. They number in the billions. They are so common that we rarely even think about them: the Hidden Heroes of everyday life. Be it a dowel, a tea…
29 Jun 2010
Despite inclement weather, the Art Basel Week saw plenty of visitors wend their way to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, which played host to Corning Museum of Glass and its GlassLab, among…
29 Jun 2010
The Vitra Design Museum workshop is now open from 11am to 5pm every Sunday and offers children aged 5 to 15 the opportunity to create objects from paper, felt and fabric. Under artistic…
14 Jun 2010
Italian designer Antonio Citterio was born 60 years ago and has been working with Vitra for 25 years. To mark the occasion, Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of Vitra, has written a birthday letter to…
02 Jun 2010
When the Panton Chair – the first product developed independently by Vitra – finally arrived on the market in 1967, it had an unusually long and difficult development process behind it, a…
02 Jun 2010
Since the lounge chair went into production more than 50 years ago, the average height of the human body has increased by up to 10cm, depending on region. To continue providing the best…
02 Jun 2010
In 1950, the Plastic Side Chair and Plastic Armchair were put on the market as the first industrially manufactured plastic chairs in history. Vitra has now brought this classic back again in a…
26 May 2010
The new products presented by Vitra at the Milan Furniture Fair in mid-April are now waiting to be discovered and tried out at…
26 May 2010
On Wednesday, 12 May 2010 the 100,000th visitor stepped through the VitraHaus entrance doors, which had opened to the public for the first time on 22 February this year. Entrepreneur Ulrike…
13 Apr 2010
Chairless is a useful seating device for the modern nomad in situations where there are no chairs available. It holds your back and legs together in the same way that you would have had to use…
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